Summary

Micah Swaeler doesn't fit in. Anywhere. His family hardly speaks to him, his friends come and go, and he can't quite figure out how to love somebody. Or how to be loved.

Until he does. And when he does, he learns how much support he's had all along.

Micah's story is told in a series of short stories that take place from the time he is four until the time he is thirty-four. While the stories go back and forth through time, each one reveals something more about things that have happened to him, things that he's done, things that he's told himself. Each story explores identity through family, athletics, friendship, sexuality, of one man's transition from being a victim to being a survivor.

Summary

Now that Harry is back at Hogwarts with Hermione for eighth year, he realises that something’s missing from his life, and it either has to do with Ron, his boggart, Snape, or Malfoy. Furthermore, what, exactly, does it mean when one’s life is defined by the desire to simultaneously impress and annoy a portrait? Harry has no idea; he’s too busy trying not to be in love with Malfoy to care.